Buena Vista-Humboldt-Pocahontas County IA Archives Biographies.....Ritchie, W. R. July 8, 1867 - 
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IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934
BIOGRAPHIES
STATE SENATORS

W. R. RITCHIE, MARATHON. - Senator from the fiftieth district, comprising  
Buena Vista, Humboldt, and Pocahontas counties, was born at Port Andrew,  
Richland county, Wisconsin, July 8, 1867, of Scotch-Irish parents.  In 1884  he
came to Alta, Iowa, and in the spring of 1894 bought his first farm and began  
farming for himself.  On February 26, 1896, he was married to Anna Jackson  of 
Sac county, Iowa, and they have four children, Florence V., instructor in the  
California State Teachers College, Chico, California; Robert C., an attorney at 
Storm Lake, Iowa;  Wendell R., a graduate of Iowa State College; and Donald  
S., a graduate of Buena Vista College.  He is a widely known, successful  
auctioneer of northwest Iowa.  He is past master of Universal Lodge, 587,  A. F. 
and A. M.  Elected senator in 1930.  A republican.


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